I loved the cakes but was slightly more intrigued by your use of the term 'legos' (plural) - here in the UK, we say 'Lego' (singular) when referring to it, even when looking at multiple bricks. . . . a bit like sheep. If looking at a field of wooly jacketed mammals, do you say sheeps whereas we Brits would say sheep?

You see, this blog is a real insight into the subtle differences between our countries. I actually lament the fact that we don't have the 'sheet cake bakery' culture that you have - there's less opportunity for cake-based hilarity when wandering around the supermarket over here . . . . (sigh)

I made a lego brick cake for my son's 8th last year (8 stud brick, of course) but these are so incredible it makes my effort seriously wrecky. I'll be sharing this page with all my lego-loving family! (P.S. my son and brother were both upset that I would not be providing the Lego Batman cake for their birthdays)

Several years ago I used to care for a young man on the Autistic Spectrum who was fixated with Duplo and Lego, and constantly had a piece in his hand or held up to the light. He was totally non-verbal but you knew he liked you if he let you have a piece of his Lego; a great honour.

He would have adored these cakes on first sight, then become very confused by them not being what he thought, then enjoyed eating them a lot. Maybe I should forward them this link...

The lady who made the Lego cake for her son also, a few weeks ago, made a very nice-looking Pokemon cake for another son. She's really, really talented. http://jumpinmonkies.livejournal.com/41001.html#cutid1

Long time reader, first time poster - thank you for your inspirational sunday sweet posts. These cakes are amazing - I wish we would have thought of a lego cake before we got married!!!! AMAZING stuff!

I think Chocmocake's version is of Duplos. My 22 year old son is going to flip when I show him these cakes tonight. Lego(s) were a large part of his growing up. We had 3 70 qt buckets of Legos. The piece they NEEDED was ALWAYS in the bottom of the third one. They didn't have a Lego vac back then. Picking up Legos is a PITA. And you always leave one to find with your bare foot at night.

That being said, I loved that my kids had them and enjoyed them. But they weren't my favorite toy, lol. (And to me, plural is LegoS. Don't care.)

My son just had a LEGO-themed birthday party and I was at a loss for how to do a LEGO cake so we punted and ordered a standard ice cream cake. Now I'm inspired. Maybe he'll still be into LEGOs next year....

I am in complete awe of all these. Though the one where the lego guys are building the wedding cake! SOOOOO Awesome!! And the picture with all the buckets of legos... Yeah when I was a kid I had all my legos seperated like that, please tell me I wasn't the only one!

Playing with legos is a fond childhood memory, though Mom would often scold me for putting legos in my mouth. Now I have to show her this blog and prove to her once and for all that legos certainly do have their place as part of a food group.

Not wishing to be a pedant Jen - but the correct collective noun for LEGO is LEGO adding the S is a crime within the AFOL community similar to ....... well ok I can't think of anything it's similar too. It's just not done.

i worked at legoland for 2 year. i worked as an orientation leader and would spend my time training all our new recruits (or as we were called, model citizens, MC for short)i loved my job there and shockingly i knew a ton of the MCs who were called our model builders... yes they got paid the big bucks to play with legos all year round! well... i have to say now that i have moved away to japan because of my hubby and his military career this sunday sweet sure has taken me back and makes me remember all the wonderful smiles i would see out in that park. i sure do miss those days... especially all the celebrities i met... in all this has got to be my favorite cake post on cake wrecks so far... man that first picture made me almost cry... it sure is the best place to work!

ps for all of you out there if you want to say multiple lego pieces... we always had to say LEGO BRICKS! hope that helps. also if you wanted to know LEGO in german stands for play well... so everyone play well! oh and if you all wanted to know LEGO bricks began as a furniture store... then kirk christenson came up with LEGO bricks, and eventually his factory was burnt to the ground by his son, so he re-built and searched for a way to improve his LEGO bricks. thats when plastic was invented... then soon came the plastic lego bricks.... the rest is history!

At first I felt sad that my wedding cake was so "normal" but then I realized that these Sunday Sweet cakes probably cost a lot of money so I will enjoy pictures of them and be happy that my cake came included with my reception deal :-) although I wonder what I would have come up with had I had no limits.... hmmm... possibilities are endless... a nascar racetrack made of legos? a lego church? a lego beach scene to go with my "not on a beach" beach themed wedding??

I'm always amazed that Wrecks causes so many grammatical showdowns. I do have to ask though who determined how LEGO should be pluralized? I mean, when you think about it, the Frisbee Company sells Frisbees. If the LEGO company sells LEGO bricks, than they should either be referred to as "Lego bricks" or in the more-common-to-the-rest-of-the-world "LEGOs". Honestly, it sounds a bit snooty to use LEGO for the plural. I'm just saying...

Seeing all these Sunday Sweets make me really think about what I want my wedding cake to look like. I feel excited.

But then I see the Wrecks and imagine myself as the bride in the green dress with the rollers in her hair and the look of profound bewilderment on her face and that cake with the crackly chocolate sludge. Then I feel sad.

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